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Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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l enter- prises might be undertaken for the Kingin whose sight Japan, as America, mustbe dear! On the last day of this travellers visitshe went to the great temple Asakusa,approached by a broad and long midwaywith hundreds of booths on either side.Leading from it are narrow streetswhere fortune-tellers have their stands,and gamblers play, and evil thingsabound. In the temple court pigeonsflock in crowds, and the visitor buysbeans to feed the birds that live un-harmed by any. On the temple floor thecocks strut to and fro (1909 is the Yearof the Cock in Japan); and before theshrine people pass in throngs. They claptheir hands to attract the notice of thegods; men raise their hats; the womenkneel and bow; men in foreign dress,boys with student caps, do reverence.Outside the sacred spot sits the figure ofthe great doctor—Binzuru Sama—feat-ures worn and limbs polished in theeourse of years. A man goes up to him,and rubs the knee of the wooden imageand then his own, and drops a coin and
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GRADUATES OP THE AOMORI SEWING SCHOOL AT CEREMONIAL TEA 252 The Womans Auxiliary goes away. So, in the midst of new Ja-pan we find the old. And yet we saw the school taug-ht byMiss Tsuda, one of our Christian womentrained at Bryn Mawr, and the sweethome for orphan and imbecile childrenwhom Mr. Ishii has spent long years inlearning how to help. We saw Araki Sangiving out in St. Lukes Hospital whatshe gained in Richmond; and in St.Pauls, Dr. Motoda associated with Mr.Tucker in his great, enterprise; and inSt. Margarets Mr. Koyabashi ^and Mrs.Komiya and Miss Kurokawa traininggirls into a Christian womanhood, andothers who, in church or school or hospi-tal or in direct evangelistic work, areshowing forth to their people the lifeand teaching of our Lord. And thosewho do this service have learned ofChrist, or have been trained in homesmade Christian, in the space of onemans lifetime. And what the presentsees the future may see, and more. The District of Tokyo has gone itsway quietly. It has

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